Enhancing Democracy With Coalition Governments And Politics

Author : Ndwakhulu Stephen Tshishonga
Publisher : Information Science Reference
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enhancing Democracy with Coalition Governments and Politics written by Ndwakhulu Stephen Tshishonga and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political coalition formation is a global strategy employed by leaders and parties in their pursuit of power. This practice takes on particular significance in post-colonial Africa, where coalition governments have emerged as responses to challenges faced by the electoral base of liberation parties. In countries like Congo Kinshasa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mauritius, South Africa, and the Kingdom of Lesotho, coalition politics serves as a model for conflict resolution and democratic governance. Enhancing Democracy With Coalition Governments and Politics delves into this complex landscape, thoroughly investigating the pivotal role of coalition governments formed both before and after elections. It sheds light on the challenges posed to dominant liberation movements and the urgent need for a radical agenda to address corruption, maladministration, and the abuse of political power. The book focuses on Africa's pursuit of sound electoral democracy and democratic governance. Enhancing Democracy With Coalition Governments and Politics aims to conceptually understand coalition governments, trace their historical evolution in Africa, interrogate the triggers for coalition formation, assess their impact on electoral democracy, and explore coalition politics at both local and national levels. By providing theoretical and empirical insights, the book equips policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and researchers in the fields of Politics, Sociology, Public Administration, and Development Studies with tools to comprehend, form, manage, and sustain political coalitions as vehicles for democratic governance. The book covers a range of topics, from theoretical discourses underpinning coalition politics to factors influencing coalition formation, approaches and models, challenges faced by coalitions, and their impact on service delivery and governance. It explores the nature of coalitions within different regimes, examining conditions for their sustainability and evaluating their democratic implications. This comprehensive analysis, as presented in Enhancing Democracy With Coalition Governments and Politics , addresses the needs of a diverse audience, including policymakers in government, private sectors, and civil society, as well as scholars and researchers in academic institutions specializing in political and social sciences. Ultimately, the book aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of coalition governments in enhancing democracy in various political contexts.

Author : Ian Budge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191520888
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parties and Democracy written by Ian Budge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parties and Democracy studies the actual behaviour of some four hundred governments in twenty post-war democracies. The conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions of the system on a firmer footing.

Author : Adrián Albala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331975100X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalition Politics and Federalism written by Adrián Albala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level. Presenting case studies for countries with federal systems of government, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and India, as well as those focusing on states with hybrid systems of government, such as Italy, the contributors analyze multilevel government formation processes to identify vertical congruence between national and sub-national coalitions. The book also examines various factors affecting the degree of congruence of political coalitions, such as the degree of decentralization, federalization and institutionalization of political systems, as well as cleavage structure. This book will be a valuable resource for all scholars interested in coalition politics, as well as for politicians and practitioners in government and parliament.

Author : Elin Naurin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472124676
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Mandates and Democracy written by Elin Naurin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which governments fulfill party promises during election campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom a majority of pledges—sometimes a large majority—are acted upon in most countries, most of the time. The fulfillment of parties’ election pledges is an essential part of the democratic process. This book is the first major, genuinely comparative study of promises across a broad range of countries and elections, including the United States, Canada, nine Western European countries, and Bulgaria. The book thus adds to the body of literature on the variety of outcomes stemming from alternative democratic institutions.

Author : Ian Budge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parties and Democracy written by Ian Budge and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties are the central institution through which mass representative democracies now work. They alone present voters with coherent policy alternatives in elections and effect them in government if elected. If we justify democracy in terms of its production of governments which are uniquely sensitive and responsive to popular preferences, it is through the political parties that it operates and from them that the special characteristics of the system derive How exactly do parties operate in government? There is much uncertainty about this, even on such basic questions as how coalitio.

Author : Lanny W. Martin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619469
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliaments and Coalitions written by Lanny W. Martin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies. Because these governments are comprised of multiple political parties, they are subject to tensions that are largely absent under single-party government. The pressures of electoral competition and the necessity of delegating substantial authority to ministers affiliated with specific parties threaten the compromise agreements that are at the heart of coalition governance. The central argument of this book is that strong legislative institutions play a critical role in allowing parties to deal with these tensions and to enforce coalition bargains. Based on an analysis of roughly 1,300 government bills across five democracies (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands), the book paints a detailed picture of the treatment of government legislation in contemporary parliaments. Two central contributions emerge. First, the book forces a reconsideration of the common perception that legislatures are largely irrelevant institutions in European democracies. The data presented here make a compelling case that parliaments that feature strong committee systems play an influential role in shaping policy. Second, the book contributes to the field of coalition governance. While scholars have developed detailed accounts of the birth and death of coalitions, much less is known about the manner in which coalitions govern between these bookend events. Parliaments and Coalitions contributes to a richer understanding of how multiparty governments make policy. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr

Author : Daniela Giannetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134042884
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments written by Daniela Giannetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated party behaviour at the electoral, legislative and executive levels. The chapters in this book share a common analytical framework, confronting theoretical models of government formation with empirical data, some drawn from cross-national analyses and others from theoretically structured case studies. A distinctive feature of the book is that it explores the impact of intra-party politics at different levels of government: national, local and EU. This offers the opportunity to investigate existing theories of coalition formation in new political settings. Finally, the book offers a range of innovative methods for investigating intra-party politics which, for example, creates a need to estimate the policy positions of individual politicians inside political parties. This book will be of interest to political scientists, especially scholars involved in research on political parties, parliamentary systems, coalition formation and legislative behaviour, multilevel governance, European and EU politics.

Author : David Fortunato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108890253
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cycle of Coalition written by David Fortunato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does coalition governance shape voters' perceptions of government parties and how does this, in turn, influence party behaviors? Analyzing cross-national panel surveys, election results, experiments, legislative amendments, media reports, and parliamentary speeches, Fortunato finds that coalition compromise can damage parties' reputations for competence as well as their policy brands in the eyes of voters. This incentivizes cabinet partners to take stands against one another throughout the legislative process in order to protect themselves from potential electoral losses. The Cycle of Coalition has broad implications for our understanding of electoral outcomes, partisan choices in campaigns, government formation, and the policy-making process, voters' behaviors at the ballot box, and the overall effectiveness of governance.

Author : Torbjörn Bergman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198868480
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalition Governance in Western Europe written by Torbjörn Bergman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies such governments, covering the full life-cycle of coalitions from the formation of party alliances before elections to coalition formation after elections.

Author : Peter John
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612844X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems written by Peter John and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will gain the system’s attention? “Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution.” —Political Studies Review Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political system to issues like immigration, health care, and the economy can inform our understanding of its basic patterns and processes. While there has been considerable attention to how political systems process issues in the United States, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Stefaan Walgrave demonstrate the broader applicability of this approach by extending it to other countries and their political systems. This book brings together essays on eleven countries and two broad themes. Contributors to the first section analyze the extent to which party and electoral changes and shifts in the partisan composition of government have led—or not led—to policy changes in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and France. The second section turns the focus on changing institutional structures in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, including the German reunification and the collapse of the Italian party system. Together, the essays make clear the efficacy of the agenda-setting approach for understanding not only how policies evolve, but also how political systems function.